OBITUAEIES. 





Stephenson, and through him was at an early 

 age intrusted with the responsible office of 

 chief resident engineer of the Churnet Valley 

 and Trent Valley railways. Under the advice 

 of Mr. Stephenson he was appointed to the re- 

 sponsible position he held at the time of his 

 death; and in January, 1850, he commenced 

 the important work of laying out and 

 making nearly 1,300 miles of railway. He 

 designed the two great inclines over the lofty 

 mountains of western India, known as the 

 Bhore and Thall Ghauts, and by which an un- 

 interrupted communication will shortly be 

 * opened from Bombay, and eventually from Cal- 

 cutta and Madras. Without sacrificing efficiency 

 and durability in the execution of his works, he 

 was decidedly an economical engineer, making 

 all interests subordinate to those of the share- 

 holders, and it is not therefore surprising that 

 his line the Great Indian Peninsular bids 

 fair to be the most profitable line in India. 



Aug. 27. HOGG, THOMAS JEFFEKSON. (See 

 HOGG, T. J.) 



Aug. 27. WILLIAMS. Rev. JOHN (AP ITHEL), 

 died at Llanenddwyn, Merionethshire. He was 

 born at Llangynhafel, Denbighshire, April 7, 

 1811, and graduated from Jesus College, Ox- 

 ford, 1834, and had beeri in succession vicar of 

 the parishes of Llanfawr in Denbighshire, Xer- 

 quis in Flintshire, and Llangmowddwy in Meri- 

 onethshire, and a few months before his death 

 was preferred to the Rectory of Llanenddwyn 

 hy the Bishop of Bangor. Mr. Williams was 

 one of the most profound scholars in Wales, 

 and was especially well versed in the language 

 and literature of his native country, and labor- 

 ed most untiringly and successfully in eluci- 

 dating the various branches of Celtic Archeol- 

 ogy. He was a voluminous author, and besides 

 nine or ten archselogical works, some of them 

 requiring protracted and extensive research, he 

 had written in Welsh and English a number of 

 religious books. 



Sept. 1. ORTON- REGINALD, M. D., an emi- 

 nent English surgeon, died at his residence, 

 Ford Xorth Farms, Sunderland, aged 52 years. 

 In 1833 he received the diploma of the Royal 

 College of Surgeons, in 1834 that of licentiate 

 of Apothecaries, and in 1835 took up his resi- 

 dence in Sunderland, as partner with the late 

 Mr. Fothergill, surgeon, succeeding to the 

 practice of the latter on his death, which occur- 

 red soon after. He held the offices of surgeon 

 to the Sunderland Eye Infirmary, and consult- 

 ing surgeon to Seaham Infirmary. He possess- 

 ed a philanthropic disposition, and did much 

 toward elevating the social and moral condition 

 of the working classes, taking an active part in 

 the establishment of local sanitary reforms, and 

 in the support of local literary and scientific 

 institutions. He had also attained distinction 

 as a medical writer: an essay of his in the 

 "Lancet" on "The Effects of Arsenic on the 

 Animal System, and the Utility of the Hydro- 

 oxide of Iron as an Antidote," attracted mnch 

 attention. He invented a new " ether inhaling 



apparatus," and made some experiments in in- 

 ducing spontaneous pent-ration by means of 

 electricity ; his alleged discoveries on this sub- 

 ject gave rise to a protracted aud somewhat 

 heated controversy. He took also a lively inter- 

 est in maritime affairs, and invented a new and 

 valuable life boat and some ingeniously con- 

 trived self-acting life buoys. The latter part 

 of his life was mostly devoted to scientific 

 farming. 



Sept. 6. SCMXER, Rt. Rev. JOHN* BIRD, Arch- 

 bishop of Canterbury, f i:, J. B.) 



Sept. 16. CASTELLANE, Marshal Count, 

 governor of Lyons, died in that city. He waa 

 born at Paris, March 21, 1788; entered the 

 army in 1804, and in 1806 was a sub-lieutenant 

 of dragoons in the Italian army. The follow- 

 ing year he became lieutenant, and went to 

 Spain with Count Lobau as his aide-de-camp. 

 He afterward served in Germany, and distin- 

 guished himself in the Russian campaign. At 

 the Restoration in 1815 he was for a while un- 

 employed, but toward the end of that year 

 was charged with the organization of the hus- 

 sars of the Bas-Rhin. In 1831-32 his gallant 

 conduct at the siege of Antwerp procured him 

 the rank of lieutenant-general. In 1837 he 

 was raised to the peerage after good service at 

 Algeria. He was in command of the military 

 division of Rouen when the Revolution of 1848 

 broke out, and his firmness saved his division 

 entire. In 1852 he was appointed to the 

 important post of governor of Lyons, which he 

 held until his death. He was a rigid disciplina- 

 rian and very eccentric in his character. 



Sept. 18. ALVES, Maj.-Gen. Jonx, died at 

 King street, St. James, aged 75 years. He was 

 born at Elgin; studied law, but Laving a fond- 

 ness for military life, obtained a commission in a 

 Scottish militia regiment, from thence exchang- 

 ing into the 74th regiment, in which he served 

 in the Peninsular War, and afterward in almost 

 every quarter of the world. In 1851 he was pro- 

 moted to the rank of lieutenant-colonel and ap- 

 pointed to the chief command of the depot bat- 

 talion at Preston, in the north of England, where 

 he was actively engaged during the Russian 

 war in training troops for that service. At the 

 close of the Crimean war he acquired the rank 

 major-general, retired on full pay, and was also 

 appointed sergeant-at-arms to the Queen,which 

 made it necessary for him to reside at London. 



Sept. 19. ELLESMKRE, GEORGE G. F. Er,EH- 

 TOX, Earl of, died at Balbirnie, Fifeshire, aged 

 39 years. He was born in London, and upon 

 the' death of his father, Francis, first earl of 

 Ellesmere, in February, 1857, he succeeded to 

 the earldom and extensive family c-sta; 

 Lancashire and Surrey. From 1847 to I' 

 moval to the House of Peers in 1851, he had a 

 seat in the House of Commons as one of the 

 representatives for the northern division of 

 Staffordshire. During the few years he was 

 in the lower House of Parliament, he warmly 

 supported Lord John Russell's administration, 

 and was strongly opposed to the endowment of 



